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Demonstrating How God Created Everything 
by Vibration 

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The Law Governing Evolution and the Law that 
makes Reincarnation Necessary 



BY 

ALBERT F. SCHNELL 

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Copyright, 1911 
Albert F. Schnell 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

Nature and her Laws S 

The First Cause and the First Laws in Evolution 7 

The First Law 12 

The Causes of the Law 15 

Evolution 18 

Reincarnation IQ 

Reincarnation of Galileo 22 

Galileo's Physical Build Compared with this In- 
carnation 27 

Color of Hair Compared 2/ 

Galileo's Inability to Sleep 28 

Galileo's Death and Its Effect in This Incarnation 29 

Length of Time We Stay on the Other Side 30 

Galileo's Torture 32 

The Points That Do Not Compare 33 

Reincarnation Through Ancestors 35 

Flow We Carry Out Our Past Incarnation 36 

The Dual and Trinity. 38 

Bible Teaches Evolution and Reincarnation 40 

Bible's Contradiction of the Christian Idea of Hell 49 

Bible does not Teach the Immortality of the Soul . . 52 

The Beginning of All 54 

Jesus Did Not Claim to Give Us All the Truth. . 58 

Live and Think According to Nature 60 



Nature and Her Laws 

My theory, which I wish to write upon, is based on 
Nature and Law, claiming that it does not alone base 
its theory on nature, but also demonstrating by law 
why it is necessary, although no doubt many cannot 
see it because of its simplicity, and it is a bold state- 
ment, or as some will call it, a radical statement, to say 
that God has created something from nothing; yet all 
great spiritual teachers have taught it, and man cannot 
see it because of his inability to go to nature. Like- 
wise is it with religion and many theories, they cannot 
go to nature and discover her truths. If man was 
to try to prove by nature his religion, his philosophy, 
and all he knew, then he would discover how little he 
did know. I have studied religion all my life, and when 
I say studied them, I mean to say that I got down to 
doing what they did ; consequently I got an experience, 
not knowing it alone by theory. The religion of to-day 
simply says it is so and so, but when you come to har- 
monize it by nature or the laws in nature it cannot be 
done; therefore my cry is go to nature. 

The Bible states, ''God is in all and through all,'' con- 
sequently there is not one thing in nature that God is 



6 The First Cause and 

not in, therefore you can only see Divinity through 
nature, and no man can or ever will know truth unless 
it is through nature. I do not wish to be quoted as say- 
ing that nature is God, but I do wish to say that there 
is not a form of life or substance but what God is in it ; 
therefore any man that has ever given truth to the 
world got it by going direct to nature, for God is in all 
nature. 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 7 



The First Cause and the First Laws in 
Evolution 

If God has created everything, there must be a first 
cause, and if there is a first cause there must be a first 
law. Science asks what is the first cause, because there 
is not one thing in nature but what has a beginning 
and an ending. If I was to ask: Do you believe that 
this globe will have an end? no doubt you would say 
yes ; then it would follow necessarily that it must have 
a beginning, and why is it that every one believes that 
the planet has a beginning and ending. There are no 
records of such being the case. It is simply because 
we know that everything has a beginning and an end- 
ing, but when it comes to man and what man — his ma- 
terial body — is composed of, there we stop ; there is 
where we draw the line. You cannot show me one 
thing. You will often see it quoted ''not one thing'' — 
in all nature, that you during your natural life have 
been able to discover^ or that history has ever recorded, 
but what has a beginning and an ending. If that is the 
case so must it be with all life whether it be man, ani- 
mal or material substance, it would not be going to 



8 The First Cause and 

nature if every thing in nature that we can analyze, 
dissect or discern has a beginning and an ending and 
not man ? then man would necessarily be contrary to all 
nature ; and yet as we know that man is but a part of 
nature then it necessarily follows that the same law 
that governs nature must govern man. That is the 
reason that the cry has always been — what is the first 
cause? Because everything has a beginning, conse- 
quently the Bible must be correct when it states ''God 
created everything.'' 

Gen. I :i, 2: *Tn the beginning God created the 
heavens and the earth. 2 v. And the earth was with- 
out form, and void." 

Isa. 45 \y\ 'T form the light, and created darkness." 

St. John 1 :3 : "All things were made by him ; and 
without him was not anything made that was made." 

Col. I :i6: 'Tor by him were all things created that 
are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisi- 
ble." 

Heb. 1 1 :3 : "Through faith we understand that the 
worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things 
which are seen were not made of the things which 
do appear." 

These quotations from the Bible tell us that God 
created or made everything, and all great spiritual 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 9 

teachers in other countries have taught the same. 
Buddha taught it; Lau Tsze, a Chinese philosopher, 
and spiritual teacher, born 604 B. C, whose statement 
translated into our language is: ''Heaven and earth 
and all things come from existence, but existence comes 
from non-existence." They have all different terms, 
but it meant one thing — that everything outside of the 
Divine came from nothing. 

I claim that vibration is the beginning and cause of 
all substance by whatever name or nature; the earth 
and everything on the earth or in the heavens has come 
from vibration. Scientists can analyze or dissect, and 
they simply run up against vibration ; they can take an 
atom or molecule and divide it and subdivide, and they 
face only one thing — vibration — and cannot go any 
farther. Consequently to-day they cry — everything is 
vibration — and are producing instruments to produce 
vibration, claiming vibration is life, and yet are not 
bold enough to say that vibration is the beginning of 
all. And why — because they cannot see the law that 
governs it. We create new life or substance every 
day. Electricity is new life created by the dynamo, 
which by its motion produces a vibration which causes 
new life (heat). It did not exist before the dynamo 
was put into operation. By its friction it creates heat 
and light and that heat is then newly created material 



lo The First Cause and 

substance, and there is not one thing in the uniWrse 
but what is heat. Wood is heat, iron is heat and ice is 
heat or there could not be a difference of temperature, 
for iron is colder than wood and ice is colder than 
iron; they are all different rates of vibration, that is 
the reason it is so essential that the young in all life, 
whether it be human, animal or vegetation, requires 
heat ; as heat is the beginning of all and the life giver. 

The heat of the day, or, as it is called, sunlight, is 
the first cause — the beginning of all. I am rather in 
want of a term here for the reason that we have to 
allude to the light and heat of the day as sunlight ; heat 
does not come from the sun, but is produced by vibra- 
tion. In winter time we are over three millions of 
miles closer to the sun than in summer. A few years 
ago a body of scientific men sent up balloons with self- 
registering thermometers on them. Two miles up it 
was at freezing point ; six miles up it was 60 to 80 
degrees below zero, and every mile they went beyond 
that the cold diminished as they went nearer to the sun. 
If light came from the sun, it being a ball of fire, it 
would light up all space around it ; but we know the 
space around the sun is all darkness and only between 
us and the sun is heat and light, and it can also be 
demonstrated outside of temperature that heat and 
light do not come from the sun. When the sun, at 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature, ii 

noon^ is overhead in spring and autumn, the light 
(sun) shines equally to the north pole as it does to the 
south pole; the sun is then south of the equator, for 
the sun to shine equally to the north pole as to the 
south pole the sun should be half way between the 
poles, which it is not. According to nature all light 
and heat comes in straight streaks, and the sun is 
always south of the center of the heat on the earth. 
In my book on astronomy, it demonstrates how the 
force that is called gravitation, which binds the earth 
to the sun by its vibration which is between us and the 
sun produces light and heat, and that heat is then 
transmitted to material substance and becomes part 
of the earthy which is then the first and the beginning 
of creation. 



12 The First Cause and 



The First Law 

I maintain that the first law is Positive and Nega- 
tiveness, and it is in three different aspects that they 
are three in one^ dual and triune, that these laws are 
but the reflection of Hfe itself the same as Father, Son 
and Holy Ghost, three in one^ or man with his three 
bodies: the Mental, the Magnetic or astral, and the 
Physical, the three in one. These laws did not exist 
before life came into existence, therefore law is but the 
reflection of life itself, and being the reflection, the 
laws work the same as the trinity, three in one. There 
is not a thing in nature but what works Positive and 
Negative. The beginning was so created and as we go 
farther along in evolution we obey the same law. For 
instance, our offspring is our creation. Divinity cre- 
ating through the Positive and the Negative Male and 
Female, the male being the Positive, the female the 
Negative, and because it was the law in the beginning, 
God creating something directly opposite to himself, 
that man being farther along in evolution, it simply re- 
peats the law of the beginning only in a greater degree. 

Second: Law is that the part always works the 
same as the whole, because you create through the dual 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 13 

the Positive and Negative you the part works within 
yourself the same as the whole the dual, your right 
side being the positive, the left side the negative, and 
science claims that your foot, your hand, and every 
atom in your body works Positive and Negative sim- 
ply because you have been so created through the two, 
and you have been so created because Divinity in the 
creation made something directly opposite to himself, 
which caused the law of Positive and Negative or the 
two opposite. Even the planets are created the same 
as you and I, the sun being the positive and the planets 
the negative, therefore the earth or part of it works 
within itself positive and negative. You can take the 
mineral out of the earth, charge it with electricity, and 
it will immediately take a positive and negative pole. 
Take the loadstone, hang it on a string, take a metal 
bar, find its pole, where one end it will attract; place 
the bar at the opposite end it will repel it. The load- 
stone having a positive and negative pole, showing 
that the rock mineral and everything the earth is com- 
posed of works positive and negative, the part working 
the same as the whole of the planet. 

The third law is again positive and negative in a 
diflFerent aspect. There is not one thing in all nature 
that does not come to its zenith and then retrograde. 
Man goes from babyhood to his maturity and then in 



14 The First Cause and 

his old age retrogrades back to his childish nature 
again. In his baby state he is in the negative state, 
and when he has grown up to his full vigor and man- 
hood, then he is in his positive state, and there is not 
one thing but what obeys that law ; the tree will come 
up to the time where it will bear the most fruit — its 
positive state — and then will decline back to its former 
negative state. Vegetation obeys that law of advanc- 
ing from a negative state to its maturity and then de- 
clining back every year. Even nations and our pleas- 
ures obey that law ; we had at one time the roller 
skating craze, and that has gone down and out; then 
came the bicycle craze and that has declined to its 
negative state, and now we have the automobile craze 
in its positive time where it is sweeping everything; 
yet it will have its time and will go dov/n and out, and 
I presume it will then be the flying machines. Although 
it may seem rather radical to say that, there will no 
doubt be something which will supersede the flying ma- 
chine. Nations obey the same law, come to their zenith, 
their positive state^ and then decline. Asia was at one 
time in her zenith of power ; Turkey, Greece, Rome and 
Spain have all declined ; we might say that Germany, 
England and the United States are at their zenith of 
power, and one of the most remarkable things there 
is to show that everything must obey that law, come 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 15 

to its zenith, its Positive state, and then retrograde 
to its negative state, is Rome. With all her states- 
manship, she worked on the superstitions of her fol- 
lowers, persecuting and crucifying any one that dared 
cross her path, and yet she had to obey that law of 
having her time, and then losing her ruling power and 
influence, and she will continue to do so in spite of all 
her effort; the laws of nature will prevail. I have 
shovv^n the three laws working in nature, the first being 
positive and negative, the second the part working the 
same as the whole, and the third everything coming 
to its zenith and then retrograde, Positiveness and 
Negativeness in three different aspects, or the three 
laws in one. 

The Causes of the Law 

Now what has made these laws possible or neces- 
sary ? God creating by vibration something from noth- 
ing which is a direct opposite to himself, and that is 
what positive and negative means, but two opposite, 
Divinity always existing, unchangeable, silent, inactive, 
perfect intelligence. Man^ the opposite, temporary, 
changeable, noisy, active, imperfect intelligence, be- 
cause Divinity has always existed, never changing, 
created by vibration the direct opposite to himself, 



i6 The First Cause and 

something that is changeable, having a beginning and 
an ending, or, as Buddha put it, everything transitory, 
nothing permanent. The very fact that man and na- 
ture are constantly changing shows its instability, 
non-permanence that in itself is sufficient proof of the 
Bible statement of God creating everything. That in 
its last analyses, he obeys the same condition of the 
way he has been made, the law, the part working the 
same as the whole, demonstrating that we obey the 
same condition in the way we were made, only in a 
greater degree, being farther advanced along in evolu- 
tion. If vibration could be taken entirely out of us 
we would cease to be, but vibration will continue within 
you until you will have fulfilled your mission. You 
will progress along in evolution, repeating the first 
laws over and over, the law of positive and negative, 
or the two opposite, until the opposite becomes more 
like him, consequently as we progress along in evolu- 
tion the difference in the two opposite become less in 
degree and more in oneness, for everything works in 
opposites because it was so in the beginning. For 
instance, there is intelligence ; the opposite is ignor- 
ance; but only difference in degree but not of kind, 
ignorance being the same as intelligence only less so; 
there is good and the opposite is evil ; only difference in 
degree but not of kind ; there is health, the opposite is 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 17 

disease, both of the flesh, only difference of degree, 
but not of kind; there is pleasure, the opposite sor- 
row, and because there is daylight there must be dark- 
ness, and because there is heat there must be cold, 
and because there is white there must be black, and 
every material thing has its polar opposite which is also 
the same, positive and negative ; everything having 
its opposite, because it was so in the beginning. God 
creating something directly opposite to himself from 
nothing, he being permanent. I maintain that because 
there is white and black that the first Adam must have 
been a black man, as black is the beginning or negative 
state, and if we have developed to a perfect white 
man, which I think we have nearly if not entirely, 
demonstrates that our globe is now in half of its ex- 
istence, it has come to its zenith of time and in the 
future it will retrograde back to its former state, be- 
cause the same law that governs man governs the 
planet, for man is but the natural growth of the planet 
up; therefore, if man has developed to a perfect white 
race, then the earth will decline back to its former 
state, the beginning. The yellow, the brown, the red 
races and all other races are but the different colored 
races developed in between the black, the first Adam, 
up to the present white race. Consequently, many 
things can be deducted from these laws which I will 



i8 The First Cause and 

not go into, but the law of the beginning of God cre- 
ating something directly opposite to himself becomes 
less so as we go through evolution, that the difference 
of degree between him and his Maker become less 
and less. When man has developed perfect as his God 
and become one with his Maker, that being the law, 
the difference of degree will also vanish between man 
the positive and woman the negative; they will also 
become one, the difference of degree will vanish be- 
tween him and his opposite ; then man and woman will 
be sexless and perfectly one, otherwise they could not 
be perfectly one with their God. 

Evolution 

.There is not one thing in all nature but what pro- 
claims evolution; there is not anything but what you 
can cultivate to a higher state. The animal, by proper 
cultivation, can develop to a higher state, showing its 
nature is to evolve (evolution). The vegetation by 
proper cultivation can be brought up to a better fruit ; 
your flesh is but the earth, from ground to vegetation, 
to animal, and you eat the animal or vegetation and it 
became flesh ; consequently the nature of the earth is 
to evolve (evolution) to flesh; therefore, everything 
speaks and sees evolution. From planets to vegetation. 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 19 

to animal, then man; if earth can evolve to flesh can 
we put the limit on it and say how far, can a man in 
his narrowness put a limit to it and say just how far 
it can evolve? If it can develop to flesh, so can it go 
higher especially when everything is in a state of evo- 
lution, that there is something just a little higher, then 
it demonstrates that it can also evolve that high, and 
that which is the next to flesh is magnetism, and that 
is what it evolves to, is magnetism, then to mind. The 
statement that has often been made that everything is 
mind is very near correct, for everything is evolving to 
mind. 

Reincarnation 

Now, then^ to the law that makes reincarnation a ne- 
cessity. That everything in nature comes to its zenith 
and then retrogrades back toward its former state 
necessarily forces the mind^ the intellect of man, to do 
likewise; but it does not do it on this side of life. You 
can take the body and it will decline back to its former 
state. Let a man who has taken care of himself 
live to old age, his old body becomes so weak that he 
cannot travel around more than a child, and finally, 
in its last act, it returns to dust from whence it came. 
But how about the mind that does not go back to its 
child state, where it cannot discern anything? That 



20 The First Cause and 

mind does not go back to where the child could not 
divide or sub-divide^ and if it does not do it on the 
other side of life where does it take place? Everything 
in nature proclaims that law of coming to its zenith 
and then retrograding. I have shown that our pleas- 
ures, nation and everything obeys that law, but at 
death man dies with his mind only in its matured state, 
only in its zenith, and it must obey the law, and there- 
fore I maintain by law, I do demonstrate that reincar- 
nation is necessary, that it must go back to its baby 
state on the other side of life; that reincarnation is 
one of the laws that makes evolution possible, for 
without reincarnation I cannot see how evolution can 
be possible. If everything in nature evolves, even to 
the ground itself, then we must be developing to some 
goal, and if it not perfection, what is it? And how 
can evolution be possible if that mind does not come 
back trom the other side to its baby state and then 
reincarnate as a new-born child, only a little farther 
advanced than its former round, its former life? That 
all nature works in rounds, only, so to speak, in spiral 
form; that each round by our experience is a little 
higher than the former round and will continue so 
until we become perfect, or in oneness with our God, 
as the old book states, ''my word will not come back 
to me void;'' that all material substance of whatever 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 21 

name or nature goes in rounds, that the last round is 
a little farther in advance of the former round, that it 
keeps advancing until it gets to man's estate, that 
everything coming to its zenith and then going back 
again^ only a little higher, is the only law that can 
make evolution possible, and that same law for rein- 
carnation, the mind coming to its zenith and then com- 
ing back, as a new-born child, must hold good, that we 
as a race have developed up from the dark ages, that 
we must be developing to some goal or perfection and 
consequent reincarnation, is the only solution to make 
that advancement possible, and the law of everything 
coming to its zenith and then retrograde, must subject 
the mind also; and even at that, if I could not see in 
man's own life the law working that will draw the 
mind back again I could then feel that I might be mis- 
taken. I maintain that when you leave this earth on 
account of living too worldly a life you are attracted 
and drawn back to the earth ; that this force of gravita- 
tion or magnetism around our globe, which I explain 
in my book on astronomy, that draws everything to 
the ground, will draw you back until you have lived an 
unworldly life. The same force that draws the apple to 
the ground will draw you to the earth until you have 
lived to the spirit instead to earthly things, that the 
same force. Gravitation, will bind you until you have 



22 The First Cause and 

lost your consciousness and your mind becomes be- 
numbed or concrete^ until it draws everything within 
itself and becomes but a seed to be planted again in 
flesh and go forth gradually unfolding and manifesting 
its former life and experiences and continually pro- 
gressing until you go to your Maker. Many ask, ''why 
do we not know our former experiences ?'' Because you 
have lost your consciousness, that thing which leaves 
you temporarily during sleeping hour — consciousness. 
Consequently, when the consciousness is gone you are 
no more cognizant of your former life; consciousness 
has been eliminated, therefore memory has vanished; 
but you have carried out your former self to the letter 
of the law, and I will demonstrate how our life tallies 
with our former life. I maintain that I am the rein- 
carnation of Galileo Galilei (known as Galileo), whose 
faults, habits, disposition and physical build has been 
recorded in history. 

Reincarnation of Galileo 

First, I will demonstrate by law that I am the rein- 
carnation of Galileo, or otherwise I would feel that I 
had quit my program of demonstrating by law at a 
critical time, and when I have stated by law that I 
am the reincarnation of Galileo, it then has practically 
been proven. Galileo was born on either February 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 2^ 

15th or 1 8th, 1564. According to history these two 
days of the month are mixed, but both dates come 
within the zodiacal sign Aquarius. In this Hfe I was 
born August 12th, 1862, at 12 o'clock midnight, in the 
zodiacal sign Leo. I understand that astrologers can 
tell by giving the dates whether you were such a party 
in your former life or not, so I give my full birth. The 
point of law that I wish to bring up is that in this life 
I was born in a zodiacal sign directly opposite of my 
former birth, just six months apart lacking three days. 
This same law that was in the beginning and is opera- 
tive in all nature and through all life, the law of posi- 
tive and negative, the two opposites, which God created 
in the beginning, the law by which you and I were 
created by the dual, the two opposites, the law that 
made evolution possible, the law that made the physical 
and the mental develop from its weak, its baby or nega- 
tive state, to its zenith, the positive state, the same law 
that is manifested through all nature of two opposites, 
simply being repeat over and over, whether it be the 
earth, the rock, the mineral, the tree, animal or man. 
The law that everything working in opposites, only 
different in degree but not of kind, is also opera- 
tive in this and my former life. Born six months apart 
in a direct opposite sign of the zodiac, of my previous 
life, causing a difference of degree but not of kind. 



24 The First Cause and 

In my former life it was in the negative state, where it 
turned all the psychic ability for the material side of 
life, discovering, inventing, etc. The Italian Govern- 
ment gave Galileo a yearly pension for his ability for 
advancing the material wants of the nation. In this 
life I am in the positive state in a spiritual sign and a 
psychic or a spiritual disposition. All my life has been 
researching in religion, even up to this very day; in- 
vestigating religion and seeking spiritual truths has 
been my hobby. I claim that in my former life work- 
ing for the material wants was my negative state and 
seeking spiritual truth in this life is the positive state, 
as spiritual enlightenment is in advance of material 
gain. But whatever may be the belief of the reader, 
there is one thing certain, by coming back in the oppo- 
site sign of the zodiac, six months opposite to my pre- 
vious birth, I obeyed the same law that is working 
and manifested in all nature — the law of positive and 
negative, the two opposites, the law God created in 
the beginning by vibration. 

Galileo's works demonstrate that he must have been 
a psychic, and being a psychic again in this life proves 
that the law of two opposites — positive and negative — 
works in astrology as well as all other things, coming 
back in an opposite sign that I was in my former life, 
hold good according to the zodiac. If I was to say to 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 25 

an astrologist that there is a positive and negative 
psychic he would immediately say, what do you 
mean? as they allude to a positive psychic as being 
a highly developed psychic, and the negative psychic 
as less so. When an astrologist writes out a chart 
he does so with a circle, and when the Planet Neptune 
is in the same house or in conjunction with the moon 
that person is a psychic. The law of Positive and 
Negative holds good in astrology as well as all other 
things. That when the same planet Neptune is directly 
opposite to the moon they are also a psychic, the Nega- 
tive psychic. If a person would marry a person in a 
sign directly opposite to his, astrologists claim that 
there would be great harmony between the two, as 
according to the law the two opposites belong together ; 
therefore, if the zodiac obeys that law and I coming 
back in the sign directly opposite to my former sign, 
proves according to the zodiac that I am the incarna- 
tion of Galileo, where in coming back in an opposite 
sign planetary conditions would then set in that it 
would make me of a similar disposition, only spiritually 
advancing me, giving me the opportunity to advance 
in evolution ; if I would come back in the exact horo- 
scope that I was in my former life, then we would 
have to admit that there is no change, consequently no 
progress. 



26 The First Cause and 

In my former life I was an astronomer, and to Gali- 
leo is the credit given of discovering the sun spots, 
ring around Saturn, the moons on the other planets. 
He also gave a practical demonstration that the sun 
was the center of our solar system for which he was 
prosecuted by the Catholic Church and kept in exile. 
He invented the telescope, pendulum of the clock, the 
thermometer, and many other works. I have written 
a book on astronomy and demonstrated the force of 
gravitation, which no man has yet attempted, and 
laid down a system on astronomy and the laws govern- 
ing our solar system that will go down in history — 
same as my works in my former life, for I feel in- 
clined to say that my system on astronomy cannot be 
disputed, for it is based on the laws in nature, and I 
have no use for any religion, philosophy or theory if it 
is not based on nature. It was Galileo's disposition 
and cry — go to nature^ and it is my disposition in this 
life, as truth or the Divine can be only seen through 
nature. 

I wish also to state that I have never read a book 
on astronomy in my life; that my book on astronomy 
was given to me by inspiration, and I could be easily 
inspired on astronomy on account of my experience 
as an astronomer in my former life. Previous to that 
I never saw a book written by an astronomer, only 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 2y 

having a knowledge of it as the public in general do 
from reading papers and school days, and my school 
days have been very few. 

Galileo's Physical Build Compared With 
This Incarnation 

There is no diflference in physical build in this life 
than in the former life ; that is one thing that I claim, 
that the physical build is the most set condition about 
us. You can be changed in your mental thoughts and 
opinions very easily, but physical, not. In my pre- 
vious life I was stout and robust, broad shoulders, 
neck rather inclined to be short, broad forehead and 
a full face the same as in this life. To see my picture 
of my former life and this one you could not deny the 
close resemblance of the two. I let my beard grow 
to its full length in this life, and it was the same bushy 
beard that it was in my previous life. If reincarnation 
is a fact, there must be a similarity of the two lives, 
both physically as well as mentally, or otherwise there 
is nothing in it. 

Color of Hair Compared 

Galileo's hair, according to history, was of reddish 
hue. In this life my father's hair was coal black and 



28 The First Cause and 

my mother's was so dark brown that you could call 
it black ; and I was born with red hair ; yet my parents 
having black hair my hair never became so^ it took on a 
sandy color and now light brown, a color you might 
say in between my former life and my parentage. My 
mother often said that she did not know who I took 
after if it were not for her mother, because of the 
difference in color of my hair and complexion. 

Galileo's Inability to Sleep 

Galileo's constant cry was his inability to sleep. In 
this incarnation it has the same result in this life, es- 
pecially in my younger days, it being absolutely im- 
possible for me to take a nap or go to sleep during the 
day. Even when a child my parents could not get me 
to sleep during the day, and being a watchmaker I 
gave it up because not being able to sleep for what I 
then termed the want of exercise, I would lay in my 
bed every night and just roll around all night, unable 
to sleep. By cultivating fewer hours of sleep I have 
been able to break up the sleepless condition that I was 
subject to in my past life. But I still continue sleeping 
less, as I claim that will be one of the benefits that will 
result in having a conscious mind on the other side of 
life ; too much sleep benumbs the mind. 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 29 



Galileo an Easy Man 

Galileo was a very easy man to deal with on money 
matters. He went security and loaned money, you 
might say, for the asking of it, and the convent his 
daughters were in had a steady flow from his pocket; 
so has it been my disposition in this life, and it always 
seemed to me that others could see it in my make-up, 
as I could not get acquainted with anyone but what 
the first thing they would do was to borrow money 
from me, which invariably meant an enemy afterwards, 
as they would have no use for me after getting the 
loan. But constant taking advantage of me, together 
with the hardships in this life, have developed in me 
the condition that I can about say no. 

Galileo's Death and Its Effect in This 
Incarnation 

Galileo died of palpitation of the heart. In this in- 
carnation as a boy I was bothered with my heart, often 
having pain in the heart, and when a boy I would have 
to sit down and get what I called "getting my breath'' 
on account of the pain in my heart and sides. As time 
went on I outgrew that condition, but nevertheless I 



30 The First Cause and 

have always had a poor blood circulation and will 
without a doubt die again in this life with heart trou- 
bles. Being in the zodiacal sign Leo, those people 
generally die of heart trouble, as that is their main 
physical weakness. I maintain that the chief cause of 
children being subject to sickness and different mala- 
dies is that they take on them or carry along with them 
the complaint or disease that they died with in 
their previous life. That is the reason that we as 
small children have more complaints than in our older 
days, carrying over with us the weakness of our for- 
mer life. 

Length of Time We Stay on the Other Side 

Galileo died January 8th, 1564. In this incarnation 
I was born August 12th, 1862, consequently the time 
from my previous death to my birth in this life would 
be 298 years seven months and four days. In my 
judgment I wish to say that my stay of a little over 
298 years on the other side was not as long as it 
would have been if Galileo had not had the mental 
troubles that he was subjected to in the latter years 
of his life, after falling into the hands of the Jesuits. 
For Galileo, while in exile, was in a deplorable mental 
condition, the Jesuits having fixed him to their own 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 31 

taste. It has been the cause in this Hfe of having a 
deplorable psychic mental condition. I believe that a 
good normal and moral mind would stay on the other 
side more than 300 years. Mentally, in my previous life 
I was a complete wreck, after falling into the hands of 
the Catholic Church for the truth that I had given out 
to the world. It is the development of the mind that 
will prolong your stay on the other side. We should 
never allow our minds to be subject to others or with 
mediumship going into a trance, hypnotism or any 
mental lechers. These things are a curse to humanity, 
and no one could make me believe but what the Jesuit 
in my past life had me under a hypnotic spell. Your 
mind is your soul^ and let no one subject your mind. 
Shun them as you would fire. The author is talking 
from a hard and long experience; an experience that 
has made his heart ache and his soul crouch for suf- 
fering; shun hypnotism and trance, and allow no one 
to subjugate your mind to theirs. There are even 
societies to-day that have occult centres to subjugate 
you to their society, going under the name of religion. 
Well has it been said in the old book: "O what has 
been done in my name.'' 



32 The First Cause and 



Galileo's Torture 

It was never known definitely whether GaHIeo had 
ever been put through any torture or not, because 
while kept in exile he was always reluctant, and dare 
not say anything or receive any visitors^ so that he 
was unable to express himself. But records show that 
Galileo believed at the time that he would be put 
through torture, and beside when he left Rome he 
was ruptured, which was not the case before the 
Jesuits took him in charge. They had at that time a 
torture they would put the heretic through which was 
called the cord, which would generally rupture their 
victim. Galileo being ruptured afterwards, and his 
deplorable condition physically completely ruined, 
mentally subdued, which resembled fear, showed that 
he was tortured and subjected no doubt to other mental 
suppression. In regards to how my present life will 
prove that to be the case is that I am a perfect coward 
of body affliction in this life ; that I cannot stand any 
physical suffering in this life, and being so cowardly 
of body ailments is on account of the suflfering and 
torture I had to undergo under the hand of the Jesuit 
in my former life. 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 33 



The Points That Do Not Compare 

There are only a few points that do not compare 
with my past Hfe, and a good reason can be given why 
they do not. The first is that I had a thick head of 
hair in my former Hfe, and in this Hfe it is very thin, 
which was the case aU through my young days. I 
maintain the cause of this was that I died in my past 
Hfe of heart trouble which gave me a poor blood circu- 
lation, and the mental troubles', subject to attacks of 
hypochondria, and on account of continually cutting 
our hair short, it does not create a demand for nour- 
ishment, and when old we become bald; but that ap- 
plies to men who have a poor blood circulation ; hav- 
ing a poor blood circulation it does not get up to the 
top of the head. Men and women of other nationalities 
who let their hair grow long very rarely become bald, 
because they have all their life made a demand for the 
blood to nourish the hair. 

The next point that does not tally with my past life 
is not having as good a memory as in my former life, 
consequently not as intellectual as I was in my past 
life. Galileo was noted like all intellectual men for his 
great memory, but in the latter part of his life, after 
the Jesuit got hold of him, the records have it that he 



34 The First Cause and 

lost his power of memory altogether. Having lost his 
good memory and in a deplorable mental condition, 
subject to hypochondria during his exile, has made 
me of an inferior memory in this life, consequently 
inferior intellect, although while I haven't the book 
learning I am just as deep a thinker in this life as I 
was in my previous life ; in fact, on spiritual knowledge 
and getting into the depth of the unseen side of life, 
I am far superior than I was in my past life. The su- 
perior knowledge or book learning which I had in my 
previous life I have not in this life, but the power to 
think deep has never been lost. But as far as evolu- 
tion is concerned the experience that I had to undergo 
in my previous life has forced me along in evolution, 
so that I am, comparatively speaking, farther advanced 
than in my previous life. Our experiences are never 
lost — we always profit by them, although we may not 
think so. Experience will make you strong and dur- 
able ; it will force you on to the goal for which we are 
all climbing. Yet when we come to know our past 
life we can see how little we are in advance, that we 
have to reincarnate and reincarnate again and again 
before we reach the goal. 

The records show that I was quick-tempered in my 
past life, but it states I was very easy to pacify; and 
it has been the same way in this life, showing that our 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 35 

strong traits or habits do not alter much where in- 
herited and environment does have an effect ; yet hab- 
its, faults and desires you have to work out and over- 
come. 

Reincarnation Through Ancestors 

It is generally held that you come through the an- 
cestors from one life to your next life. Galileo was an 
Italian; there were three left of his descendants, Vin- 
cenzio, Alberto and Cosimo. Vincenzio is supposed 
to have died in Italy^ but Alberto and Cosimo went to 
Munich, Germany. Alberto died in Germany and 
Cosimo went as a missionary to Munich, and there 
married a German woman. I am of German parent- 
age, and knowing my father's and mother's traits of 
character, I maintain that my ancestry to Galileo's life 
was not from my father's side, but from my mother's 
side and then through her mother, because my mother 
would often say that if it was not for her mother she 
would not know who I took after, because I was not 
as dark-complexioned as my parents ; my hair took 
after my former life, and from what I have come to 
know I believe that the descendant was through my 
mother and then her mother, consequently the only 
missing link between Galileo and this life would be 



36 The First Cause and 

from my grandmother to Cosimo, the only surviving 
descendant from Galileo, v^ho settled down and mar- 
ried in Munich, Germany. Therefore, there would be 
only two or three families in between, and I hope some 
day to ferret out the family connection between Cosimo 
and my grandmother on my mother's side, which was 
all in Germany. It is claimed by believers in reincar- 
nation that you come back through the same family 
ties, and in my case as far as can be traced, it sustains 
it. 

How We Carry Out Our Past Incarnation 

If reincarnation is a fact there must be a similarity 
of the two lives or it is not a truth, otherwise reincar- 
nation would not be a fact. I know from my own 
experience that my habits, faults and desires are the 
same as in my former life^ and where it does not tally 
conditions have been brought in which it can be easily 
seen alter the case. We have had from time to time 
people claiming to be the reincarnation of another one 
and at the same time there would be nothing about 
their life to indicate that they were the former one; 
in that I wish to say that my life thoroughly tallies 
with my former life, and I believe my works will 
prove it. Where in my former life I had but a few 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 37 

followers, their cry then was my disposition not to 
accept authority and my peculiar way of reasoning, 
I am the same way again in this life, although Galileo 
had a peculiar method of reasoning, yet his works 
lived after him and so will my theory on the solar 
system go down in history as the right solution of the 
solar system. There has never been a scientific man 
yet that even attempted to demonstrate the force of 
gravitation which I fully explain and base it entirely 
on man himself. I show the law governing the solar 
system and demonstrate the origin of the Planets, 
Moon and Comets, and my system goes down into the 
detail in explaining the different parts of the solar 
system and leaves nothing unexplained and strictly 
demonstrates everything by nature. It was my dispo- 
sition in my former life to go to nature, and it is the 
same in this life. Galileo's cry was ''go to nature,'' 
and it is nature alone that will and can solve all truth ; 
it will reveal all secrets, seen or unseen, whether in 
this life or lives to come. In my former life the records 
of my habits, faults, and disposition, and my complete 
life, have been written down, consequently I can more 
fully prove to myself and other that I was Galileo in 
my past life. 



38 The First Cause and 



The Dual and Trinity 

One of the objects of this book is to show the laws 
that govern all nature, and there is not one thing in 
nature but what is subject to or governed by these laws. 
The law of Dual and Trinity. In the beginning God 
creating something from nothing the direct opposite 
to himself. It was the cause of the first law, Positive 
and Negative, or the two opposite, the dual, and be- 
cause of that the material substance had to work or 
go through evolution in opposites — Positive and Nega- 
tive or male and female — consequently all life in the 
universe had to be so created through the Positive 
(male), the Negative (female), whether it it be Plan- 
ets, Vegetation, Animal or Man. And what has cre- 
ated the trinity, that which was made being direct 
opposite to God which made it dual, then the material 
substance being but the reflection of that dual it took 
on the form of dual, then the Divine descended into 
matter and it then was three or triune, the trinity. 
First the Divine, second the Positive, the male, third 
the Negative, the female — the three in one. The 
Divine in the dual causes the trinity, and continues so 
through all evolution until the difference of degree be- 
tween all three becomes less and less, that is to say, 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 39 

that when you become one with your Maker, when in 
the end you have become one with your God, then the 
difference between you and your opposite will also be 
one, then the difference of degree will be eliminated, 
the male and female then will be one. Then the cry 
of suffragettes will be a thing of the past ; sexless, pure 
and undefiled will you stand before your God, then 
will the law of Dual and Trinity be eliminated, then 
will trials, sorrow and troubles in life vanish, then will 
hell and reincarnation cease to be, and not until then. 
Then will your vibration vibrate no more, then the 
unchangeable, non-vibrating everlasting in man be left 
— The Divine. Thus everything in nature works first 
dual, then trinity. As we develop to perfection it will 
always be Divine first, Man second. Woman third, or 
male and female in the lower animal life. Therefore 
the consequence of the trinity of Father, Son, and 
Holy Ghost. Man with his three bodies, the mind, the 
magnetic (astral), and Physical. Then Man in be- 
tween nature and God, everything working dual and 
trinity. 

It does seem strange when we look at everything 
how it can be possible that man does not see that every- 
thing comes from vibration ; there is not one thing that 
we have had an experience with or that history can 
record but what has a beginning and an ending, and 



40 The First Cause and 

everything is constantly undergoing a change, every- 
thing proclaiming its non-permanence. The Bible 
claims that God created everything and all great 
spiritual teachers taught it, and our great scientific 
minds of to-day cannot tell you the essence of one sin- 
gle thing in nature ; they cannot fathom or get to the 
bottom of anything; they divide and sub-divide and 
cannot get to the minuteness of any material substance 
of the earth. They simply run up against vibration 
and there they stop, and yet practically no one believes 
with the Bible that God created everything. 

Bible Teaches Evolution and Reincarnation 

Even the Bible shows that civilization comes to its 
zenith then retrogrades, showing that the race has 
come up from the dark ages to our present time, then 
retrograding back to the dark ages again, demonstrat- 
ing the law of evolution and involution, as involution 
is the opposite to evolution, everything in opposites. 
That we have reincarnated again and again through 
cycles of time, and when the millennium arrives and 
we do not free ourselves from the bondage of this earth, 
we will then go back to the dark ages again. 

Revelations : Chapter 20. 

First Verse: 'T saw an angel come down from 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 41 

heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a 
great chain in his hand/' 

Second Verse: ''And he laid hold on the dragon, 
that old serpent^ which is the Devil, and Satan, and 
bound him a thousand years." 

Third Verse : ''And cast him into the bottomless pit, 
and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he 
should deceive the nation no more, till the thousand 
years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be 
loosed a Httle season.'' 

Fourth Verse: "And I saw thrones, and they sat 
upon them, and Judgment was given unto them: and 
I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the 
witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which 
had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither 
had received his mark upon their forehead, or in their 
hands : and they lived and reigned with Christ a thou- 
sand years." 

Seventh Verse : "And when the thousand years are 
expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison." 

Eighth Verse : "And shall go out to deceive the 
nation which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog 
and Magog to gather them together to battle : the num- 
ber of whom is as the sand of the sea." 

These verses of this chapter proclaim reincarna- 



42 The First Cause and 

tion and also that the race comes to its zenith and then 
retrogrades, consequently demonstrating the law in 
evolution. Rev. 20 :5V : ''But the rest of the dead lived 
not again until the thousands years were finished." 
This is the first resurrection : ''but the rest of the dead 
lived not again until the thousand years were finished" 
— does this not imply that they have lived before and 
will live again after the thousand years have expired? 
Surely live again means that they have lived before and 
will live again on the earth, after the thousand years 
have expired. Reincarnation. 

Rev. 2 ch.^ 1 1 V : "He that overcometh shall not be 
hurt of the second death." 

Rev. 20th ch.^ 6th v. : "Blessed and holy is he that 
hath part in the first resurrection : on such the second 
death hath no power." 

These two verses imply that those that overcome 
during the millennium will not have to come back and 
go through the second resurrection, or go through a 
second death ; but those who come back — those that 
live again, after the millennium, will go back to the 
dark ages, reincarnate and reincarnate up and then go 
through a second resurrection, and the next resurrec- 
tion then will be after we have gone through another 
cycle of time, after we have retrograded back again 
to the dark ages and evolved up to the zenith of 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 43 

another civilization; then there will be the second 
resurrection, and that method will continue as long as 
the globe is inhabited, giving all life an opportunity to 
free itself from the bondage of the earth. 

If you will read this chapter carefully, like many 
other chapters, you will see that the Christian ideas 
of being lost and burning up in hell have no foundation, 
only the preacher's misconception of the Bible. The 
old book teaches reincarnation all through it, of which 
I quoted only a few in my book, and there is no con- 
flict between reincarnation and hell if you have the 
right conception of hell; the Bible does not teach that 
hell is a place or a location in the hereafter, but 
the condition the soul is in whether it be here or here- 
after. I can take those passages in which you might 
think it teaches a place in the hereafter and I could 
show to you that it means the condition the soul is in 
and not a place or a location. Did you ever stop to 
think of hell over in heaven? When you get into the 
true meaning of hell there is no conflict between hell 
and reincarnation, which are both taught in the Bible, 
and if the Bible teaches both the preacher must be 
wrong or the Bible is wrong, and I rather think it is 
the preacher, because there is so much that preachers 
believe in that is contradicted in the Bible, that I feel 
like saying that they had better get down and believe 
their Bible. 



44 The First Cause and 

Revelation, 20th chapter, demonstrates the millen- 
nium. The second and third verses show us that dur- 
ing this millennium of a thousand years the devil will 
be bound in the bottomless pit so that during this thou- 
sand years we won't have that old fellow, the devil, to 
bother us^ but after the millennium the same condition 
will be again. 

Seventh verse : ''And when the thousand years are 
expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.'' 

Eighth verse : ''And shall go out to deceive the na- 
tion which are in the four quarters of the earth, God 
and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the 
number of whom is as the sand of the sea." 

These two verses demonstrate that after the millen- 
nium the people that have not freed themselves from 
reincarnation will go back again to the dark ages. 
When it states that the rest of the dead lived not again 
until the thousand years were finished, and distinctly 
tells us that there is to be a second death, to be another 
resurrection after the thousand years (the millennium) 
then no one can be lost. The Bible teaches the same 
law that governs all nature that everything in its evo- 
lution comes to a zenith and then retrogrades, the mil- 
lennium being the zenith of our whole race, the very 
fact that the Bible in the seventh and eighth verses 
states that after the millennium or thousand years has 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 45 

expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. Eighth 
verse : ''And shall go out to deceive the nation which 
are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, 
to gather them together to battle: the number of 
whom is as the sand of the sea." Showing that we will 
have after the millennium the same condition as be- 
fore the millennium, sorrow, trouble, turmoil and 
wars ; that at the height of our civilization, that at the 
zenith of our time of peace and harmony that the devil 
will be loosed again, to go out to deceive the people 
again, and have the same old condition as before. The 
Bible simply indicates by the same law of Positive and 
Negative that the race comes up to its zenith and then 
retrogrades back to its former state demonstrating the 
law of evolution and involution. I think that I have 
proven by nature and law and also by the Bible that 
everything comes from nothing to its zenith then re- 
turns to nothing, and evolution through reincarnation 
it keeps on advancing, round after round, each round 
being a little in advance of the previous one, until we 
become perfectly one with God, then no doubt the 
divine within us comes to a rest. Physical matter and 
everything that we are composed of then will vanish 
and cease to be, then the vibration will have been en- 
tirely eliminated. This book at least gives the law 
governing evolution and the working method of evolu- 



46 The First Cause and 

tion, and the Bible proves it by showing that the race 
itself develops from the dark ages to a millennium, then 
retrogrades back to the dark ages again, and that has 
been going on, cycle after cycle; that there are many 
that have gone before us and that there are many to 
follow after this civilization, going through the same 
trials, temptations, sorrows and misery as we have, 
that after all when you come to analyze life it is but 
one sorrow, that indeed the Bible is correct when it 
states, ''although he was a son (Jesus) he became per- 
fect by suffering." Heb. 5th chapter, 8th and 9th verses. 
When we come to analyze life how foolish it is for us 
to make another life one dot harder than it is, that 
we in our present time simply means one man doing 
the other up and even the one on top has to constantly 
watch the next fellow below him, and if to-day you 
were to talk brotherly love to your acquaintance he 
would think that there is something wrong with you. 

St. Matthew 17th chapter, 12th verse: ''But I say 
unto you. That Elias is come already, and they knew 
him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. 
Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them." 

Thirteenth verse: "Then the disciples imderstood 
that he spake unto them of John the Baptist." 

If you will read the eleventh chapter of St. Matthew, 
eleventh to fourteenth verses, and St. Matthew, seven- 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 47 

teenth chapter, tenth to thirteenth verses, you will see 
that Jesus emphatically declared that John the Lus- 
trater was the reincarnation of Elijah. 

St. John, 3rd chapiter, 13th verse: "And no man 
hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down 
from heaven." 

St. John, 6th chapter, 62nd verse: "What and if ye 
shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was 
before." 

St. Mark, 6th chapter, 14th verse: "And King 
Herod heard of him: (for his name was spread 
abroad) and he said, that John the Baptist was risen 
from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew 
forth themselves in him." 

Fifteenth verse: "Others said that it is Elias; and 
others said that it is a prophet^ or as one of the 
one of the prophets." 

Sixteenth verse: "But when Herod heard (of Je- 
sus) he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen 
from the dead/' 

St. Matthew, 13th verse: "When Jesus came into 
the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples 
saying. Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" 

Fourteenth verse: "And they said, Some say that 
thou art John the Baptist : some Elias ; and others, 
Jeremias, or one of the prophets." 



48 The First Cause and 

St. Luke, 9th chapter, i8th verse: "And it came to 
pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with 
him : and he asked them saying, Whom say the people 
that I am?" 

Nineteenth verse: 'They answering said, John the 
Baptist ; but some say, Elias ; and others say, that one 
of the old prophets is risen again/' 

The above quotations and many other quotations in 
the Bible show that Jesus quite often asked his disci- 
ples and the people who he was in his previous life, 
but he never committed himself; but when his disci- 
ples thought he was the re-embodiment of Elias he 
plainly told them that John was the reincarnation of 
Elias, thereby showing that Jesus acknowledged rein- 
carnation, which was universally beUeved in at that 
time. It was no doubt the Divine intention to let the 
present idea of hell prevail, because we need it ; our 
race had to have a condition of fear behind us to ad- 
vance us spiritually and it has had its effect, but at 
this generation many of us have outgrown the fear 
of this terrible hell, taught by the Christians, and we 
are beginning to do our own thinking, and the second 
coming of Christ only means another teacher, as Jesus 
plainly told his disciples in the i6th chapter of St. 
John, I2th to 25th verses, and other parts of the Bible, 
that he did not tell the whole truth. He told the dis- 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 49 

ciples that they could not bear the truth and that will 
hold good even to-day, especially will it hold good 
among the Christians. In the 25th verse he states that 
in his second coming he will not then talk in proverbs, 
but will show us plainly of the Father, and if he has 
not told the whole truth may it not be evolution and 
reincarnation? I have often said that the Christians 
will not receive the second coming of Christ no more 
than the Jews did when he came as a Jew. If in his 
second coming he should teach that which even his 
disciples could not bear, where will the Christian be? 
You could not get them out of the old rut they are in 
no matter what power would be brought to bear upon 
them, consequently I can readily see that it will be 
as the Bible states, that it will be only the one hundred 
and forty-four thousand that will receive him. 

Bible's Contradiction of the Christian 
Idea of Hell 

St. John, 1st chapter, ist verse: 'Tn the beginning 
was the Word^ and the Word was with God, and the 
Word was God.'' 

Fourteenth verse : ''And the Word was made flesh, 
and dwelt among us (and we behold his glory, the 



50 The First Cause and 

glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of 
grace and truth/' 

Isaiah, 55th chapter, nth verse: ''So shall my word 
be that goeth forth out of my mouth : it shall not re- 
turn unto me void." 

Here we have it plainly that God created the world 
by the Word, and it also states the Word was made 
flesh. The Bible nowhere mentions flesh but what it 
is alluding to man, and if God created the world by a 
word and it was also made flesh, then man is a part of 
that Word; and if he states that my Word will not 
return unto me void, where is the Christian idea of 
being burned up in hell forever and ever; there is a 
screw loose with theology somewhere when the Bible 
states ''my word will not return unto me void,'' and 
man is a Word as well as all nature. Here we have 
from the Bible two contradictions of the accepted idea 
of hell. Reincarnation means that the soul comes back 
or incarnates into a new-born child and continues 
through evolution to perfect itself, and we being a 
part of that Word which God created the world by, 
will not come back to Him void, meaning that the word 
that God sent out will go on until it has accomplished 
its mission. I do not care at this time to go into the 
different passages of the Bible showing the true mean- 
ing of hell, but I could thoroughly establish the point 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 51 

by the Bible that hell is but the adversity and obstacles 
and suffering we go through in our life in our evolu- 
tion. 

The Bible plainly shows, as also did Buddha, that we 
become perfect through suffering, which necessarily 
means evolution, as we cannot become perfect in one 
life. 

Heb. 5th chapter, 8th verse: "Though he were a 
Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he 
suffered/' 

Ninth verse : ''And being made perfect, he became 
the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey 

him -r 

Surely these two verses mean that Jesus bqcame per- 
fect by suffering. 

Heb. 2d chapter, loth verse: "For it became him, 
for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, 
in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the cap- 
tain of their salvation perfect through suffering."" 

I Peter Sth chapter, loth verse : "But the God of all 
grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by 
Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make 
you PERFECT, establish, strengthen, settle you." 

These verses demonstrate that by our suffering in 
our daily lives we become perfect, and it is the only 
hell the Bible teaches. 



52 The First Cause and 

No doubt you and I have come up to this millennium 
and have gone back to the dark ages time and time 
again, and had to endure the sufferings and turmoils 
that we have records of in past ages, and that is hell 
enough for me. And those of us that do not free our- 
selves of reincarnation in the millennium that is about 
to be ushered in, will again go back to the dark ages. 

Bible Does Not Teach the Immortality 
of the Soul 

No one believes in the immortality of the body. 
Everybody knows that the body dies and decays, there- 
fore it cannot be immortal. But the Bible speaks about 
a soul. Preachers try hard to demonstrate the immor- 
tality of the soul, but the Bible does not state that the 
soul is immortal, as some people seem to suppose it 
does. There is no such a word in the whole Bible as 
''immortal soul.'' Take a Concordance and you will 
not find such a word in the Bible as immortal soul, and 
it does seem that such an important part of man's 
life should not be left out of the old book. If there 
was such a thing as man's soul being immortal, we 
must at least acknowledge that the Saviour has left 
out the most important part of man's life, the soul im- 
mortality, and that is not very probable; but on the 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 53 

contrary the Bible does say that ''God is able to de- 
stroy both soul and body/' and again ''the soul that 
sinneth it shall die/' and if it can die or be destroyed 
it cannot be immortal. Consequently the Bible proves 
that neither soul nor body are immortal, and the very 
fact that the Bible has left out the most important part 
of man's personality in itself proves that what man 
is made of is not immortal. The Bible leaving out 
such an important event verifies its own statement that 
God created everything from nothing, and if it has 
come from nothing it must return to nothing; there- 
fore it would be impossible for the soul to be immor- 
tal ; otherwise the Bible would contradict itself. The 
Bible does not contradict itself, but it is the incorrect 
ideas gotton out of the old book, and it is about time 
that when our learned theologian's conception does not 
coincide with the Bible or^ in other words, the Bible 
in another place contradicts his idea, he had better get 
down and see what is the matter with himself and not 
the old book. The old book is all right, and when man 
understands the old book we will have a different world 
than we have to-day. 

There is no evidence in the Bible of the soul being 
immortal; from nothing has he come and to nothing 
will he return^ for the vibration which has created him 
will some day cease to vibrate and he will be no more 



54 The First Cause and 

and the only thing that will be left in him will be that 
which never changes — ''the Divine/' Any broad- 
minded man who will think for himself will have to 
acknowledge that the body and mind which is subject 
to a law of change constantly changes in itself, demon- 
strates its non-permanence, the law of evolution and 
involution, the law of building up and tearing down, 
will be operative with man in his last moments and 
annihilation will be its consequence. I would like to 
ask one question : Why is it that man has within him 
that which is the highest of all^ which never changes 
and all the rest being changeable, because Divinity is 
not subject to vibration it has not been created by vi- 
bration, but all the rest is subject to and has been 
created by vibration. Therefore man is not immortal 
and the Bible and nature's laws verify my contention 
not alone in stating that God created all, but also that 
it does not teach the immortality of the soul. If it did 
there would be a contradiction by the Bible, for the 
soul is but substance of a higher vibration and a more 
attenuated matter than his body and has its source 
from and by the same law that governs his body. 

The Beginning of All 

I maintain that the beginning of all is daylight or 
heat. The earth travels around the sun at a speed 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 55 

which we have nothing on this earth to compare with, 
and the force (magnetism) that binds the earth to the 
sun vibrates against the ether in space as the earth 
travels around the sun (and there cannot be a cause 
without an effect) which produces the heat and Hght 
of the day. There is not a star, a nebula, a comet, 
moon or a planet in the whole starry heavens but what 
is in motion and all for no purpose. Astronomers as 
a rule agree that the stars get their light by that means, 
and why not our earth, when we are traveling around 
at such a tremendous speed ? Does it not seem strange 
that our earth obeys the same law of the whole starry 
heavens, everything in motion^ everything traveling 
at a tremendous speedy and all for no purpose, a cause 
without an effect? We know that the closer we get 
to the sun the colder it gets^ and there is not one 
phenomenon claimed of the sun by our present astron- 
omers which can be proven by nature, and I mean 
what I say, that there is not one phenomenon in its con- 
nection with our earth which can be proven by our own 
laws. It is about time that our astronomers and 
preachers get down and do some of their own thinking 
and not simply accept it because it has been handed 
down from the past ages, the unenlightened or dark 
ages. If the sun was a ball of fire the space around 
the sun would necessarily be brilliant, but we know 



56 The First Cause and 

that the space around the sun is all darkness except in 
between us and the sun. 

DayHght is simply electricity, and the only differ- 
ence between our electricity and that produced by the 
earth traveling around the sun is that we condense 
our electricity in a wire and the electricity produced 
by the earth vibration is in a scattered form, each atom 
of the magnetism being electrified, or otherwise we 
would not be able to endure it ; that electricity is then 
turned into material substance and that is the begin- 
ning of matter, and that continues in its evolution 
until it reaches the highest form of life. But I can 
hardly go into this in showing its evolution in this 
book, but the first organized life with an embodied 
soul is the earth or planets, and it is many souls in one 
and it is the first form that has a soul or, rather, souls, 
that by their combined number they have enough intel- 
ligence by which the Divine can work through it. 
Everything in the universe has a soul that has created 
a form by its own natural growth ; it is then when the 
Divine works through it (God in all and through all). 
The intelligence of the thing is the soul of it. I could 
by the Bible show that it states the intelligence is the 
soul of anything, and anything that has grown its own 
form has a soul, although the intelligence may be far 
inferior than ours, yet it is there. Take the tree. It 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 57 

will reach its roots toward the brook or shallow places 
for moisture^ and that in itself is an intellectual act. 
It has enough intelligence for its own use and need, 
and that is all it requires in its stage of evolution. 

In the planet it is a Group soul and remains as a 
group soul when on the other side. There is some re- 
ligion that teaches that the animal has a group soul 
when on the other side, but that is impossible or, rather, 
it is not working from cause to effect, for our future 
life is but the reflect or the results of this one, and the 
animal being separate, being divided, their souls must 
also be separate. When on the other side there cannot 
be any group soul farther than the planets and the life 
in water, as after that their lives on this earth are 
distinctly separate, consequently it must be so on the 
other side. For the evolution of the planet soul 
through reincarnation is in the water ; it is yet a group 
soul, as water is a solid body although it is then taking 
on a condition of separateness. We know that water 
is one mass of living insect life, and it evolves from 
that state through reincarnation to fish life, up through 
the animal to man, and continues through evolution 
until it becomes perfect. 



58 The First Cause and 



Jesus Did Not Claim to Give Us All the 
Truth 

I Cor., 3rd chapter, 2nd verse: '1 have fed you 
with milk, and not with meat ; for hitherto ye were not 
able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." 

St. John, i6th chapter, 12th verse: "I have yet many 
things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.'' 

Thirteenth verse : ''Howbeit when he, the Spirit of 
truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth,'' etc. 

In I Cor., 3rd chapter, 2nd verse, and St. John i6th 
chapter, 12th verse, we have statements showing that 
Jesus has not given us the whole truth where in this 
case he told his disciples that they could not even bear 
the truth, and in the thirteenth verse he told his dis- 
ciples, ''Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, 
he will guide you into all truth," showing that the 
whole truth is yet to be given to the world which is 
again supported, after speaking about his second com- 
ing in the latter part of the chapter in the 25th verse : 
"These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs ; but 
the time cometh when I shall shew you plainly of the 
Father." In these statements we plainly see that Jesus 
did not give us the whole truth when he said that the 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature, 59 

time cometh, surely indicate it has not come yet, but 
will, as this chapter indicates, in his second coming: 
''I shall no more speak in proverbs, but shew you 
plainly of the Father,'' consequently it will be given 
to us so that we will not have to be mistaken about it. 
The Bible being written in parables is because in evo- 
lution we have minds of all discrepant, and being writ- 
ten in parables has made it that we could get all the 
different religion that the different minds needed, and 
the old book's object was to draw up all men, not a 
favored few, and if you have a mind that can see the 
deeper truth in life you will find you can see the Bible 
gives you just as deep as you are capable of receiving. 
In that the old book to me is a wise old book ; it can 
suit all kinds of minds at all the different stages of 
evolution; that is the reason that Moses and the 
prophets came during their evolution to teach the peo- 
ple what they could comprehend at that time, and when 
people had advanced then came Jesus to teach the peo- 
ple what they could comprehend at that stage of evolu- 
tion, and if it has always come as a teacher in the dif- 
ferent stages of evolution will not the second coming of 
Christ mean another teacher? It has always come as 
a teacher, so will it come again as a teacher to teach 
what the disciples could not at their time bear, but 
what at this stage of evolution we can. And if it is 



6o The First Cause and 

not Evolution that will be taught, what may it be? 
There is one thing sure, in these verses it shows that 
he has not told us the whole truth, and if there is to 
be a second coming of Christ, and it has always come 
as a teacher, so will it come in its second coming, 
a teacher of higher truths, and I think it is logical w^hen 
the Bible shows us in Rev. 20th chapter, that the race 
evolves up to its zenith (millennium) and then retro- 
grades the same as all nature, showing that the Bible 
does give the working method of evolution; that the 
disciples could not bear it in their time which I think 
the world is now ready for because evolution and rein- 
carnation is the only logical solution of life. 



Live and Think According to Nature 

Coming in contact with people in my travels and 
speaking about my theory, that everything comes from 
nothing, and when I say to them, go as far back in 
history as you wish and show me one thing that Man 
can or ever has been able to discern but what it has 
had a beginning and an ending, but yet they will say, 
how about material substance? There it shows their 
illogic and the inability to go to nature. If everything 
that man can analyze or discern has a beginning and 



The Three Laws That Govern All Nature. 6i 

an ending, so has that which on account of time he 
has not been able to discern, especially when every- 
thing is in a stage of evolution, everything changeable, 
nothing permanent. If I could but educate man to go 
to nature in what he believes, I would have accom- 
plished one great blessing to humanity, because to-day 
there is so much belief especially in religious matters 
that it is simply ridiculous nonsense. Take a religious 
man who believes in some ridiculous stuff and see 
him speak about some other religion and ridicule cer- 
tain parts of the other's belief ; and why ? because that 
which he ridicules in the other religion does not coin- 
cide with nature, but what he believes in; he won't 
analyze it according to nature. He has been drilled 
in that way, then he becomes fanatical, consequently 
becomes irrational. If every man was to take to na- 
ture that which he believed in he would be surprised 
in seeing how little he did know ; and that holds good 
with all philosophy and theories. Man will not go to 
nature, and I have demonstrated not alone by nature 
but also show the law in every part, every atom, as I 
have gone along, showing that everything and all 
things that man can analyze obeys these laws, and yet 
many cannot see it, and why? because you have been 
so drilled in other directions that you neither live or 
think according to nature, but when you get living con- 



62 The First Cause^ etc. 

trary to nature you suffer and suffer hard, but thinking 
you don't see the suffering it entails when you think 
contrary to nature, consequently man goes along in his 
suffering and don't know any better. Go to nature. 



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